Manar Maged, an Egyptian 11-month-old baby, recovers after an operation in a hospital in Banha 40 km.....
Manar Maged, an Egyptian 11-month-old baby, recovers after an operation in a hospital in Banha 40 km, 25 miles, north of Cairo February 19, 2005. Egyptian doctors said they removed a second head from a 10-month-old girl suffering from one of the rarest birth defects in an operation on Saturday. Maged was in a serious but improving condition after the procedure to treat her for craniopagus parasiticus, a problem related to that of conjoined twins linked at the skull. As in the case of a girl who died after surgery in the Dominican Republic a year ago, the second twin had developed no body. The head that was removed from Manar had been capable of smiling and blinking but not independent life, doctors said.